The Political Lives of Saints (eBook)

Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt

Angie Heo (Autor)

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2018
316 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97012-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS’s rise in 2014, Egypt’s Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state.
 
Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer’s eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Note on Translation and Transliteration 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 
Part One. Relics 
1. Remembering Martyrs 
2. Redemption at the Edge 
Part Two. Apparitions 
3. Territorial Presence 
4. Crossovers and Conversions 
Part Three. Icons 
5. Public Order 
6. Hidden Faces 
Epilogue 
Bibliography 
Index
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 2011 • Arab • arab spring • Authoritarian Rule • Christians • collateral damage • copts • divine intercession • Egypt • holiness broker bonds • Isis • Islamophobia • Martyrs • material media • minoritarian regulation • miracles • modern nation state • Muslims • Mysteries • Nationhood • persecution rhetoric • Politics • popular saints • revolutionary sacrifice • sacred territory • Social relations • traces of antiquity • Tradition
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97012-8 / 0520970128
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97012-0 / 9780520970120